I=B9m a newbie pic enthusiast, who=B9s already built my first couple of
projects, but am looking at smoothing out the development cycle a bit.  I=B9m
searching for a programmer I can hook up to my mac that does the following:

* serial only (mac only has usb,  would get a usb/serial dongle)
* supports most of the pic family of chips (16F, 16C, 18C, the more the
merrier)
* is supported by MPLab environment (to be run in Virtual PC)

I=B9ve got an old laptop I=B9m using now, with a somewhat ok way of gathering i=
n
the hex code generated by mplab to feed a parallel port programmer, but tha=
t
damn pos is slow and unreliable, with only a parallel port cdrom that no
longer works, and only a stuck hardrive from total uselessness ( I had to
give it a good whack last time just to get the harddrive to spin, again),
and I=B9ll be damned before I by a new pc.

Any other macophiliacs out there who have gotten this to work?  Would be
interested to know if you could get that serial port to interface to such a
specified programmer, either linux/osx, and the ability of vpc to hook up i=
f
possible.


Dave Gomez
Lost mac guy who want=B9s to do pic programming too!!

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